Did Muslims Visit America Before Columbus?

History News Network ^ | 5/8/06 | Rebecca Fachner

[nosofar]

No way did there make it to America. A new land full of treasure? They'd have been there in a hearbeat to convert every living thing by the sword to Islam or enslave the infidels.

[zek157]

I think you can give them algebra. Their cultural apex was the 8-900's.

[tkathy]

This should be attacked and not allowed to stand. This is the way that muslims have slimed their way into many countries and made invalid claims.

[Redleg Duke]

First the Ruskis and now the Muzzi's..."We invented everything...yada...yada...yada!"

[Mikey_1962]

Supposedly Cristobal Colon was from Italy (but there is some thought he was from Barcelona and related to the Colons who were pirates looting the King's ships hense the Italian cover story) so if he was Italian, Spanish was not his first language.

[TXnMA]

Mroueh cited an Australian archeologist, Dr. Barry Fell.

At that point, the article ceased to even be entertaining -- so I saw no need to read farther...

[Bear_Slayer]

In 1492 India was called Hindustan not India.

Correct, but the word he would have used to describe them would have been indigenes, pronounced in di he nes and meaning indigenous.

[caisson71]

I thought they made it here on their carpets.

[Mikey_1962]

Maybe he was an Italian writing crappy Spanish, like me...

[Publius6961]

Spanish orthography was different in 1492. If you have ever read unedited Elizabethan plays, you know that standard spellings didn't exist until fairly recently.

I am acutely aware of that. I have read Don Quijote and other Spanish classics in their original form. Been there, done that.

Spanish evolved somewhat differently from English, and did not morph as much. Minor differences only, such as substituting "h" for "f" as in the modern word "hornos"...

[nosofar]

Since that makes no sense as Spanish, I doubt that very much. In Spanish, there is no such word as "in".

Was there over 500 years ago? Language changes.

[susannah59]

I knew there was a reason I didn't like Algebra!!

[Tribune7]

Mohammed did.

He rode a flying horse.

[rageaholic]

No, the Japanese had an aircraft industry, they didn't have to steal airplanes from a more advanced civilization. Suicide-hijacker is a uniquely arab invention.

[Mikey_1962]

Holy Original Settlers Batman! Where did you find that?

Senior year, Latin IV, Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe Michigan.

[TC Rider]

So does this mean that the Mexicans and Native Americans should now be pissed at the Islamics?

[Publius6961]

Spain is proud of her heritage, and many (not all) of the diaries of the early explorers have been published both in their original form and in modern Spanish.
The only exceptions are documents around the time Spain was finally unified prior to the muslim expulsion. Those libraries remain in the families of the nobles who experienced (and funded) the history.

[reagan_fanatic]

Good Lord - I thought at first this was some of that wacky crap from that kooky Ask The Imam website...

[Mikey_1962]

I've heard that several times before and I sincerely hope it's true. But was the name coined by Columbus himself or Las Casas?

Las Casas would be my guess.